A comment from Dave Winer's Scripting News:

"User-generated content is actually on the road to nirvana, but it's not a sustainable model in itself. In all that content, which today's companies view as frankfurter meat, undifferentiated slurry, a medium for unwanted hitch-hikers, is the idea for the next iPod, or the formula for peace in the Middle East, the campaign platform for the President we'll elect in 2012, perhaps even a solution for global warming. You just have to believe that intelligence isn't concentrated among the people who rose to the top of the 20th century's ladders to believe that there are nuggets of wisdom waiting out there for the taking, among the minds that created all that UGC."

I have to agree. Buried in the massive growth of user-generated content is nuggets of gold and pearls of wisdom beyond on imagination. Our challenge in the upcoming years will be to find ways to more quickly bring this information forward to people who can use it. Sadly, it's not easy.

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